A Geoscience Digital Image Library
A Geoscience Digital Image Library
| Title | Chrysocolla |
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| Description | Chrysocolla, CuSiO3-nH2O (hydrated copper silicate), is an attractive blue-green mineral that provides a unique color to the mineral world. Chyrsocolla is perhaps more appropriately a mineraloid than a true mineral. Most of the time it is amorphous, meaning that it does not have a coherent crystalline structure. However, at higher temperatures it does demonstrate a distorted crystal structure that seems to be composed of Si4O10 sheets. Chrysocolla forms in the oxidation zones of copper rich ore bodies. |
| Location | USA ▹ Arizona |
| Photographer | Nessa Eull. 2002-02-15. |
| Collection | University of North Dakota Mineralogy Collection #1284. |
| Key words | Chrysocolla, Arizona |
| Tech details | 230 KB. Hand specimen. Fujifilm FinePix S1Pro digital camera; 60mm AF Nikon micro lens. |
| GeoDIL number | 2374 |
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